Texas insurance agent Jerry Gossett has sued the Republican National Committee and one of its suppliers, the Spalding Group , alleging they stole his design for the 'W' bumper stickers used by President George W. Bush...

In Monday's environmental law news, more than 600 Honduran banana pickers have filed a lawsuit against the Dole , Chiquita , and Fresh Del Monte food companies and the Dow Chemical and Royal...

Israel's Supreme Court Monday dismissed an attempt by Jewish settlers to bar legislation enabling the government to accomplish its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The settlers filed eight petitions challenging the Evacuation Compensation bill, ratified in...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Coca-Cola Co. has announced that the Justice Department (DOJ) has closed its investigation relating to allegations raised in a whistleblower lawsuit of accounting irregularities at the company. The...

Following up on a story reported last week in JURIST's Paper Chase, two Houston oil executives pleaded not guilty Monday in a Manhattan federal court to charges of defrauding the UN Oil-For-Food program and paying millions...

Italian authorities indicted four people on Monday in connection with the death of famed Italian financier Roberto Calvi , known as "God's Banker" due to his close association with the Vatican. Calvi was found hanging under a bridge...

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a Brazil-based church can continue using a traditional Native American tea brewed from a hallucinogenic herb, hoasca, as a religious sacrament. The case is Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente...

One hundred and fifteen Roman Catholic cardinal-electors have begun to take their oaths of secrecy prescribed in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis at the start of the papal conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. Cardinal...

US military officials are citing a recent overview of information obtained from Guantanamo detainees as evidence that the military should be able to conduct operations at Camp Delta without intervention from the US court system. The unclassified document ,...

The first post-genocide president in Rwanda , Pasteur Bizimungu , begins his appeal process Monday before the Rwandan Supreme Court to challenge his convictions for inciting civil disobedience, associating with criminals and embezzling public funds. Bizimungu is...